June 2019 GPs are central to the NHS system, and are being railroaded into signing a legally binding document without full understanding of the implications. NOT signing the new GP contract, and NOT signing up to a ‘Primary Care Network’ is essential if we are to resist the conversion of our National Health Service into […]
THE DANGER POSED BY REPEALING SECTION 75 OF THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ACT 2012 Why pushing for the removal of the requirement for competitive tendering by repealing Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (HASCA) will legalise monopoly takeover of our NHS by the American health insurer UnitedHealth completing the planned […]
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General Practice in England is in a state of crisis that has been gradually engineered since 1990 when measures to convert the NHS to a profit-driven, private health insurance system were first introduced. Since 2010, we’ve seen deliberate defunding, preceded by contract changes in 2004 which have increased fragmentation and market bureaucracy, making a greater […]
Thank you for listening to our first podcast on this important and imminent threat to England’s National Health Service (NHS). The bedrock of the British health service has been its well established, easily accessible primary care. Individuals or groups of family doctors working in practices covering the whole country and accessible to all, funded through […]
The British Medical Association: Who are they working for? Despite copious rhetoric about “modernisation” and “transformation”, the changes in the National Health Service (NHS) since the 1980s have never been about improving it for patients. These words, commonly heard since the infiltration of NHS decision-making by the global business lobby, are euphemisms for privatisation. “Modernisation” […]
The latest on the NHS land smash & grab: Dr Bob Gill in conversation with Dr Sarah Gangoli.
A damning report on the intensive care unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich (QEH) highlights the dire effects of hospital mergers instituted to deal with PFI debts. By Helen Mercer (retiered) formallySenior Lecturer in Economics, Programme Leader, BA Hons Business with Law. Department of International Business and Economics University of Greenwich Merger and subsidy does […]
Dr Bob Gill – producer of the documentary The Great NHS Heist, on the ground to set the scene on NHS privatisation.
Dr. Bob Gill and Dr. Sarah Gangoli in conversation on the BMA’s new code of conduct, as well as its impact and longer-term effects on the NHS.